Friday 27 January 2017

English Important Cloze Test Set 14 Asked in Various Exams for IPPB and IDBI

Cloze Test 1:

A factor that air passengers give little thought to but which is a serious threat to air safety is (1) maintenance. In the current global airline boom competition is (2). Which compels airlines to (3) costs and (4) output. In India with a seat capacity considerably (5) of the demand all airlines practice severe cost-cutting to (6). Faced with having to cut costs to the bone and maximise aircraft utilisation, a surprising number of airlines may cut (7) on aircraft maintenance, even at the (8) of compromising safety. While commercial aircraft are (9) to take much punishment, for example, in the event of pilots flying into thunderstorms there is a limit to the punishment that even the toughest aircraft can take when profitability takes (10) over safety.

1. 1) expedient 2) incessant 3) routine 4) laborious 5) poor

2. 1) optimise 2) intense 3) destined 4) guarantee 5) profitable

3. 1) falsify 2) lavish 3) minimise 4) incline 5) ration

4. 1) depress 2) productive 3) curb 4) available 5) maximise

5. 1) ahead 2) less 3) more 4) saturated 5) above

6. 1) invest 2) survive 3) live 4) appraise 5) reinforce

7. 1) out 2) taxes 3) across 4) corners 5) short

8. 1) claim 2) formality 3) reminder 4) strain 5) risk

9. 1) designed 2) unable 3) rotated 4) originally 5) standard

10. 1) encouragement 2) influence 3) precedence 4) cover 5) guard


Cloze Test 2:

Mobile banking (M banking) involves the use of a mobile phone or any other mobile device to (1) financial transactions linked to a client’s account. M banking is new in most countries and most mobile payment models even in developed countries to date operate on a (2) scale. A mobile network offers a (3) available technology platform onto which other services can be provided at low cost with effective results. For example, M banking services which use (4) such as SMS can be carried at a cost of less than one US cent per message. The low cost of using existing infrastructure makes such services more (5) to use by customers with lower purchasing power and opens up access to services which did not reach them earlier due to (6) cost of service delivery. Although M banking is one aspect in the wider (7) of e-banking there are reasons to single it out for focus—especially because there are a lot more people with mobile phones than bank accounts in India. M banking could provide a (8) solution to bring more “unbanked” people to the financial mainstream. Without traditional credit, individuals are (9) to exploitation by abusive lenders offering very high interest rates on short term loans. Also of considerable importance are public safety implications for the unbanked—they are often victims of crime because many operate on a cash-only basis and end up carrying significant amounts of cash on their (10) or store cash in their homes.

1. 1) disburse 2) undertake 3) subscribe 4) lure 5) amass

2. 1) full 2) voluminous 3) substantial 4) limited 5) rapid

3. 1) readily 2) tangible 3) routinely 4) securely 5) unique

4. 1) process 2) waves 3) deliveries 4) connection 5) channels

5. 1) valuable 2) answerable 3) amenable 4) exposed 5) responsible

6. 1) waning 2) stable 3) proportionate 4) marginal 5) high

7. 1) archive 2) domain 3) purpose 4) component 5) aspect

8. 1) law-abiding 2) tried 3) reassuring 4) cost-effective 5) stop-gap

9. 1) inclined 2) immune 3) vulnerable 4) surrendered 5) pressured

10. 1) person 2) own 3) relatives 4) purses 5) self


Cloze Test 3:

In July 2008, one of the most inspiring leaders of our times, will (1) his ninetieth birthday. Nelson Mandela retired from politics in 1999, but he has remained (2), continuing his work through the Nelson Mandela Foundation. The foundation has launched an Aids awareness campaign, 46664, named (3) Mandela’s prison number. He has also set up a scholarship programme whose (4) was to promote leadership among young Africans. During the 1990s, (5) I worked with Mr Mandela on his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom, I (6) his leadership firsthand. During his election campaign we were on board a plane discussing his book. Twenty minutes (7) to landing the engine failed. Many began to panic. The only thing that (8) them was looking at Mandela, who was reading his paper as if he was a passenger on a morning train to work. The plane landed safely and when we got into the car taking us to the hotel he (9) to me, “I was terrified on the plane !” As a leader he realised he was a model for others and this gave him the strength to (10) over his own fear.

1. 1) tribute 2) remember 3) honour 4) celebrate 5) rejoice

2. 1) resigned 2) active 3) influenced 4) participant 5) reserved

3. 1) by 2) with 3) after 4) as 5) thereafter

4. 1) wish 2) pursuit 3) result 4) plot 5) aim

5. 1) when 2) that 3) period 4) later 5) alongside

6. 1) felt 2) acquainted 3) experienced 4) underwent 5) learned

7. 1) before 2) sooner 3) close 4) prior 5) advance

8. 1) calmed 2) soothing 3) composed 4) restraint 5) discipline

9. 1) speaks 2) confided 3) confidentially 4) entrusted 5) assured

10. 1) success 2) overcame 3) dominate 4) victory 5) triumph


Cloze Test 4:

Mankind has seen rapid (1) in the last 150 years because of the mass manufacturing techniques (2) in western nations and later taken to new levels of efficiency by Japan. Mass production and production for the masses became the bases of new business strategies. Large-scale consumption by all with the social benefit of (3) poverty, became the dominant economic strategy. The advent of electricity and its large-scale application to lighting, heating and operating machines added a fresh dimension to manufacturing. By the 1950s came (4) in electronics and transistor devices to be followed by innovations in microelectronics, computers and various forms of sensors all of which (5) altered the manufacturing scene. It is now no longer necessary to make prototypes in a factory or a laboratory to study a new product. Many new products can be (6) on computers and their behaviour simulated on them. By choosing an optimum design through such simulations, computer programmes can directly (7) the manufacturing processes. These processes are generally called Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Assisted Manufacturing (CAM). These capabilities are leading to newer forms of (8) by customers. Each customer can be offered several special options. Customised product design or (9) manufacturing are other popular techniques currently in (10) in many developed countries.

1. 1) havoc 2) transformation 3) destruction 4) violence 5) deforestation

2. 1) discarded 2) resorted 3) indulged 4) perfected 5) designated

3. 1) removing 2) nurturing 3) appeasing 4) cajoling 5) mastering

4. 1) additions 2) gadgets 3) modifications 4) variety 5) inventions

5. 1) immediately 2) precisely 3) irreversibly 4) indefinitely 5) measurably

6. 1) designed 2) produced 3) manufactured 4) sold 5) purchased

7. 1) inspire 2) cultivate 3) visualize 4) drive 5) curtail

8. 1) uses 2) demands 3) advertisements 4) consumption 5) goods

9. 1) visible 2) secure 3) fundamental 4) overt 5) flexible

10. 1) view 2) wings 3) vogue 4) isolation 5) order


ANSWERS:

Cloze Test 1

1. 5 2. 2 3. 3 4. 5 5. 1 6. 2 7. 4 8. 5 9. 1 10. 3

Cloze Test 2

1. 2 2. 4 3. 1 4. 5 5. 3 6. 5 7. 2 8. 4 9. 3 10. 1

Cloze Test 3

1. 4 2. 2 3. 3 4. 5 5. 1 6. 3 7. 4 8. 1 9. 2 10. 5

Cloze Test 4


1. 2 2. 4 3. 1 4. 5 5. 3 6. 1 7. 3 8. 2 9. 5 10. 3


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